i just spent about 5 hours playing my game and made massive family progression, and i was saving regularly throughout the game. I tried to save my game again and it kept coming up with an error, i tried saving it as a new game and in edit town mode but all failed and kept coming up with the error code 12. Eventually the dreaded debug box came up and closed my game. When I went to restart and got to my game again i discovered that none of my saves had worked so i lost all 5 hours of my game!? To be frank i am extremely angry with this at the moment and not sure what to do in order to fix this problem. If anyone knows how to solve this problem I would really appreciate it!
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Never use Save (or Save and Quit), always use Save as to save your progress. Always quit by Quit without Save. That way a failed save will not make all your work go 'poof'. And if a save doesn't work, don't retry with the same name, because the game only makes one single backup and a second try will overwrite the possibly still useable backup with the first failed one.
BTW: if you want to use a backup, look inside the folder [user]/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Saves to find the backup by looking for the folder named as [NameYouGaveThe Save].sims3.backup instead of [NameYouGaveThe Save].sims3. Throw away the faulty [Name...].sims3 and rename the backup by simply removing the .backup part of the name (so now this older folder looks like [Name...].sims3).
Pay especially good attention to the first link on that page, that will lead you to @BluebellFlora's compilation of useful facts, tips and tricks. One off the subjects there is purging RAM.